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If there is one word that sums up a central obsession in today’s legal word it is innovation. Law firms and their clients are both continually seeking innovation and being innovated for. It is time to ask, ‘what does innovation actually mean?’ ...
Litigation is a complex practice of law, with many sub-niches requiring specialization in a particular field. However, one thing that brings all litigators together, regardless of their practice areas, is the adversary process.
One of 100 Rulings in Our New GAAR Case Finder
On October 13, 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) released its decision in Univar Holdco Canada ULC v. The Queen, 2017 FCA 207 (Univar). The FCA overturned the decision of the Tax Court of ...
For years, budding airplane pilots and race-car drivers have been able to strap themselves into virtual simulators to test their respective skills and odds of real-world success. But what about lawyers? Recent advances in artificial ...
The new Taxable Benefits Navigator determines whether a benefit received in connection with an employee’s office or employment is a taxable benefit that must be included in the employee’s income pursuant to section 6 of the Income Tax Act. ...
I remember hearing time and time again from junior lawyers that it was not necessary to worry about what electives one took or how much one learned or did not learn during those three years of legal education as “the real learning, unless you ...
Law schools and regulators are beginning to accept that lawyers need much better training and knowledge in how to use technology. As technology is increasingly used within law practices to streamline legal processes and more efficiently deliver ...
We are excited to introduce Tax Foresight’s new navigator: T2057: Section 85 Election Eligibility. The T2057 navigator assesses whether a disposition of property by a taxpayer to a taxable Canadian corporation is eligible for an election under ...
Blue J Legal and Thomson Reuters recently launched a machine-learning algorithm called Tax Foresight that searches for patterns in case law in Canada to find what elements influence judges’ rulings in tax disputes. “Let’s say the user has a ...
Law and accounting firms across Canada are buzzing: Blue J Tax and Case Finder are revolutionizing tax law research. Our users are working smarter and more efficiently than ever, spending less time digging through keyword and boolean searches ...
Maybe it’s unfair that some people think tax lawyers have the personality of a robot, but Benjamin Alarie considers that to be a plus. A Yale-trained lawyer himself, Mr. Alarie’s Toronto firm, Blue J Legal, harnesses artificial (or augmented) ...